he got knifed in broad daylight, c… holding his hands over his gut, dr… on the pavement. nobody waiting in line left their… he made it to the Mission doorway,…

they’d come around and they’d ask “you finished your 2nd novel yet?” “no.”

Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:

it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs

was much easier to be a genius in… only 3 or 4 literary magazines and… or 5 times you could end up in Ger… you could possibly meet Picasso fo… maybe only Miró.

you sit on the couch with me tonight new woman. have you seen the

sleep at Lila’s and in the morning we get the breakfast special at th… then it’s up to her friend Buffy’s… Buffy has boy twins, father in dou… in a $150-a-month apt.

the problem, of course, isn’t the… it’s the living parts which make up the Dem… the next person you pass on the st… multiply

sitting on a 2nd-floor porch at 1:… while looking out over the city. could be worse. we needn’t accomplish great things…

Jack London drinking his life awa… writing of strange and heroic men. Eugene O’Neill drinking himself o… while writing his dark and poetic works.

at the hospital that I have been going to the nurses seem overweight. they are bulky in their